This article originally appeared on the Vocativ website. By James Kitfield, Jan 11, 2017 Unruffled by the periodic shouts of protesters, Secretary of State Designate Rex Tillerson weathered his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign…

By James Kitfield As U.S. and NATO officials have scrambled to react to the evolving crisis in Ukraine, they have noted an alarming pattern of behavior by Russian President Vladimir Putin: At every juncture where…

Before the very real enmity that exists between the U.S. and Russian governments dooms the current initiative to secure Syrian chemical weapons, and continues to propel both nations along their trajectory towards a Cold…